Improvement in cupboard-latches



W. E. SPARKS 8L P. BRADFORD.

Improvement in Cupboard Latchs.

N0.. 124,981. PaentedMarch26,1872.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. SPARKS AND PURMORT BRADFORD, OF NEW HAVEN, CON- NECTICUT, ASSIGNORS TO SARGENT 85 GO., OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEM ENT IN CUPBOARD-LATCHES.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. SPARKS and PURMORT BRADFORD, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Oonnecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Cupboard-Latch; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with4 the accompanying drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents, in-

Figure 1, a front view, and in Fig. 2 a vertical central section through the handle.

This invention relatesio an improvement in that class of latches commonly termed cupboard-latches-that is to say, latches which are applied upon the outside of small lockers or cupboard-doors. These are usuallyT provided with a small knob upon the latch to facilitate the raising of the latch7 and by means of which the door is opened. This knob, necessarily small, is inconvenient in cases where the door from any cause sticks The object of this invention is to provide a more convenient means for operating the said latch, and a'ord greater facility for opening the door; and it consists in combining with the latch a handle, one end of which is fixed to thelatch, the other attached to the door, so as to have a vertical movement, by means of which handle the latch may be raised and the door opened.

A is` the latch-plate; B, the lever or latch proper, pivoted to the plate at a, and extendling through a guard, O, in substantially the usual manner for that class of latchesthe latch being no part of this invention, our improvement being applicable to any peculiar construction of this class. l D is a handle, not unlike in form a common door-latch handle, and substantially such as seen in Figs. l and 2. One end of the handle is attached to the latch, as at d, and the other extending either up or down, as may be desirable, to a iixed bearing, and that end of the latch so attached to this bearing as to besecure in its position and yet `allow a free vertical movement, here represented as by a double-headed bolt, F, working in a slot in the said bearing and xed in the end of the handle, or may be xed in the bearing and work in a slot in the handle.

When required to raise the latch, the person takes hold of the handle D, and giving it a vertical movement, as denoted in broken lines, raises the latch, and by means of the handle a firm hold is had by which to open the door.

We claim as our inventionv In combination with the latch B, the handle D, one end of which is attached to the said latch, and the other to the door, so that a ver tical movement given to the said handle, in. the manner substantially as described, will impart a corresponding movement to raise the latch, substantially as described.

WILLIAM E. SPARKS. PURMORT BRADFORD.

Witnesses D. B. SARGENT, Y A. J. TIBBITS. 

